Flea Market Finds

I got to go to a couple of flea market/antique malls this week, and actually (for a change) found something worth buying. Usually, all I find are bashed-around Breyers with astronomical price tags: $35 for a Misty with missing paint and large Crayon decorations, $50 for a "vintage Breyer" that was actually a common-as-dirt lemon-yellow FAS, and so on.

I still found a good population of overpriced Breyers this time, but I also found, and bought, a Hartland grazing mare and a dapple grey "Noble Jumper" (Halla mold). The Hartland is the first one I've seen in real life that I know of, and the first I've bought. She's a nice dapple grey, and other than a slightly bent foreleg, there are only a few small rubs. Considering that she was just stuck on a shelf and not in a glass case, she's in lovely shape. The Halla is also grey, Breyer's lovely splatter dapples, but again, in lovely condition. She was in a glass case, and I thought worth the $15 price. Also in the case were two old SMs, missing large amounts of paint, for $5 each, and the stallion from the Classic Andalusian family, for $10 I think.

New Arrivals

Fed Ex delivered a box yesterday that I've been waiting a week for. Okay, not a long wait, but I'm not a patient person sometimes.

I bought a pair of Stone Palouses, two variations of Fiesta, the SR for the El Paso Equine Art show. One is one of 78 done in a satin finish with a blaze. The other is one of only 10 (*) with a matte finish and a star. Technically, she's one of 5, since 5 of the 10 were customized before the show. This one, so far, is my rarest horse, other than one or two customized models.

Garage Sale Finds

I rarely find things at yard sales or flea markets, but I don't get to a lot of those lately, which skews my results. My mom did find these three for me last weekend, though. Just $8 for all three.






All three are Trad-scale or a bit larger. The black is ceramic, I think from one of the paint-your-own-whatsit places. I've got one very similar in another color. The other two I'm not sure about. No identifying marks on them that I've found, although I've seen similar horses at the local hardware store (in the gift section).

New horses

I did some shopping on a road trip Friday, and came home with two of the Treasure Hunt horses for this year. I got very lucky and found the Rose Grey that's so hard to find. I also came home with a second Dun Sabino, because I couldn't remember if the one I already had was metallic and slightly glossy. Which he was, so now I have two. Sigh

I ordered the Pinto and Appy from Cassie, so as soon as they get here (this week) I can send off for my Pegasus. Yay.

Pictures to come.

New horses

I haven't bought a lot lately, but I did pick up these two little guys at Orscheln's last month.



Schleich Percheron stallion



Schleich Przwalski (and I'm sure I mangled the spelling).

I like Schleich horses for the most part. They're not the high-end Breyers and Stones, but you can get most of them for $5 or less, and they're not that bad to look at. (You want horses that make you flinch, go look at the Papo brand of toy horse.) They're made of rubber, so you don't want to leave them somewhere hot. I found that out the hard way - my tolting Icelandic mare is a bit tipsy after she sat on the stereo for a while and one leg warped. Ooops.

Welcome to my other blog

This is the blog where I plan to rattle on about Breyer model horses (and Stones, and Schleich toy horses, and basically any horse shaped object).

More to come!